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When we hear the word "dementia," we usually think of memory loss in older adults. But there's another, much rarer form of ...

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Teaching healthy relationship skills to middle school students can help prevent adolescent relationship abuse and lead to ...

Alcohol's negative effect on women's working memory is somewhat mitigated when their estrogen levels are higher, a novel ...

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Individuals who lived with obesity as children are less likely to be in work or studying in their mid-20s than their peers, ...

Knowing the calorie content of foods does not help people understand which foods are healthier, according to a study I ...

Researchers at Novartis BioMedical Research in the US and Switzerland have identified a molecular target that may provide a ...

President Donald Trump has long been preoccupied by the trade deficit—the gap between what the U.S. sells to the rest of the ...

Many patients suffer not only from respiratory symptoms due to their COVID-19 disease, but also from significantly reduced ...

For neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, treatment options are scant. New research by Stanford ...